we heard that from jake carney, white house spokesman on friday. nothing to do with u.s. policy. now, it may be true. it also may be a convenient way to not have to answer questions about american policy, to say well, this is just a video and that's part of free choice, even if we don't like the video and we certainly -- the administration is not responsible for that. so that's something we'll pursue. >> and secretary of defense leon panetta is saying this morning he expects the violence level -- that the violence will start to level off. what is the appropriate response from the united states? >> well, there's a limit, particularly in the short-term to what we can do. i mean, obviously, one of the things we've done since the violence is to try to speak to these countries. i mean, it was very noticeable that in egypt, that these demonstrators were allowed to get so close to the embassy to scale the wall, to tear down the u.s. flag, to put up a radical islamic flag, and obviously what happened in benghazi, one of the things that the president has been doing and may have to continu